They did it for last Saturday’s trip to Newcastle too, but that game presented even more of a poser for kitman Mark Forbes.

Southampton’s home kit this season is a tribute to the Patrick strip worn between 1980 and ’85, a kind of reverse-Ajax style.

Back in the 80s, when clashes arose with the home and the two-tone equivalent away strip, Southampton actually had an all-red third shirt on hand, effectively the normal jersey but with the white stripe removed, and they half-followed that philosophy for the trip to St James’ Park.

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Delighted to have acquired the Europa League red backed shirt (Romeu v Sparta Prague home) and red shorts (probably as pictured above), Gabbiadini’s red backed shirt from the Newcastle match and Carrillo’s red shorts from one of the handful of times they wore them in 2017/18. Thankfully they’re selling the third kit this season, though black (keeper) socks at Palace and all red hooped socks with white trim for another away are still annoyingly unavailable…